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i cannot find anything on google for "all bitmap fonts show the same font that isn't the bitmap font i'm selecting" so if any people who would like to convince me that it's any better than windows could shed some light into this feel fre to replyguy me

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is there a way to hack a samsung tv that's on the same LAN as me to mute it remotely

linux is hyperconfigurable as long as you have the exact same machine as the maintainer and want the exact same config as the maintainer

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yes i have ln-s'ed "70-yes-bitmaps.conf". yes i have rebuilt font config cache. yes windows in 1995 had a better font support

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for an operating system that purports to make old devices useful linux sure is allergic to bitmap fonts and resolutions lower than 1920x1080

in an unprecedented groundbreaking move we have decided to run the 2024 elections through an online participation poll and now we are proud to announce that the next president with an overwhelming majority of votes is "See Results"

hey guys i've come up with a way to clear up the lack of tone in written text, if you mean for your message to be read seriously please add an indicator at the end of it like so: /s

2 eggs
1 tsp salt
240ml whole milk
50ml cooking oil
500g sour cassava starch
50g grated parmesan
150g grated cheddar or mozzarella

mix all liquids then slowly mix solids in until you form a dough, then bake little balls on trays for 30-40 minutes in an over preheated to 200c

I don’t think developers truly appreciate the fragility of software until their first run-in with an obscure file format for which the only converter in existence was written by one guy in college in 2003 and released as source only with no comments and requires applying a patch to a library to compile, but it’s not for a release version, oh no, it’s for a very specific SVN revision from a long dead server

Even though old software has not changed, new software has introduced faster, more efficient workflows at the cost of the speed of the software itself. The knowledge and tools to even produce software that uses a few megabytes of RAM is, in practice, lost. We can produce better tools but we cannot produce them for the computers that would benefit most from them. #RetroComputing

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(letting go of a ball onto the ground) 🎶 feliz gravedad, feliz gravedad

one of the mad things about the internet is how you get someone making a living from doing something and then theres 50 other people next to them doing literally the exact same thing just as well and not even getting any attention or appreciation let alone money

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